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Nice little tip for the Command Prompt...

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Originally posted by: OdiN
Okay who remembers the dosshell program?
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i remember the dos shell from 4.0 and 5.0, they killed it in 6 i think.

also remember memmaker and doublespace, and the fiasco surrounding that, then drivespace.
 
Originally posted by: Specop 007
Command prompt?
Is that like when the Install asks if I want to click the Yes button to confirm the install directory? When it prompots me for an answer? How do you type commands into the buttons??
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oh wow.
 
I used to have boot menus in my system, multi color screens and all kinds of " neat" thinks for my system. Oh well...
 
Originally posted by: BigToque
If you've ever wanted to capture the output into a file, all you need to do is append this to your command line (without the quotes):

" > x:\file.txt"
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Did you know the Turbo button does not actually make your computer go fast? In fact, it's the OPPOSITE. It slows down your computer so games will play properly. Back during those days, if a game was created for the 386s era, and you had a 486-66DX, the game would FLY by your screen because the mhz would be too high... so what the 'turbo' button did was SLOW down your computer so it could play the games properly.
 
Originally posted by: Looney
Originally posted by: BigToque
If you've ever wanted to capture the output into a file, all you need to do is append this to your command line (without the quotes):

" > x:\file.txt"
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Did you know the Turbo button does not actually make your computer go fast? In fact, it's the OPPOSITE. It slows down your computer so games will play properly. Back during those days, if a game was created for the 386s era, and you had a 486-66DX, the game would FLY by your screen because the mhz would be too high... so what the 'turbo' button did was SLOW down your computer so it could play the games properly.
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opposite.

EDIT : Damn, you edited it.
 
Originally posted by: LoKe
Originally posted by: Looney
Originally posted by: BigToque
If you've ever wanted to capture the output into a file, all you need to do is append this to your command line (without the quotes):

" > x:\file.txt"
Click to expand...

Did you know the Turbo button does not actually make your computer go fast? In fact, it's the OPPOSITE. It slows down your computer so games will play properly. Back during those days, if a game was created for the 386s era, and you had a 486-66DX, the game would FLY by your screen because the mhz would be too high... so what the 'turbo' button did was SLOW down your computer so it could play the games properly.
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opposite.

EDIT : Damn, you edited it.
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Yeah, i accidentally hit tab when i meant Caps.
 
Originally posted by: MmmSkyscraper
Originally posted by: OdiN
Those of us who remember DOS games...and the "not enough memory" errors will know what I am talking about 🙂
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I remember needing to free up 2KB to run Syndicate :|
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syndicate rocked! i loved that game.

and those not enough memory messages were the bane of my existence hehhe himem.sys! i used to think it was a dirty word or somthing.
 
On XP you use PROMPT to set a new prompt, on old systems use $p$g to set a new prompt. Used to do this in the autoexec.bat files of my teachers in high school and they would freak out.

$p$g Your hard disk is being formatted. Please wait...
 
Originally posted by: Pepsi90919
Originally posted by: OdiN
Okay who remembers the dosshell program?
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i remember the dos shell from 4.0 and 5.0, they killed it in 6 i think.

also remember memmaker and doublespace, and the fiasco surrounding that, then drivespace.
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Holy hell, i remmeber my friend came over one day, and doublespaced my drive...i nearly skinned him alive...
 
Definitely oldschool. How many remember getting their 10 or 20 meg hard drives that were not even partitioned, let alone formatted?

 
i remember always editing autoexec and config to load stupid little things into upper memory so i can free up conventional memory to play games...
 
Originally posted by: Kung Lau
Definitely oldschool. How many remember getting their 10 or 20 meg hard drives that were not even partitioned, let alone formatted?
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damn even thats too oldschool for me...my first hard drive was 100mbs.

edit: and i thought i would NEVER fill it up...boy was i wrong...
 
Originally posted by: Looney
Originally posted by: BigToque
If you've ever wanted to capture the output into a file, all you need to do is append this to your command line (without the quotes):

" > x:\file.txt"
Click to expand...

Did you know the Turbo button does not actually make your computer go fast? In fact, it's the OPPOSITE. It slows down your computer so games will play properly. Back during those days, if a game was created for the 386s era, and you had a 486-66DX, the game would FLY by your screen because the mhz would be too high... so what the 'turbo' button did was SLOW down your computer so it could play the games properly.
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But, do you know WHY the old games ran so quickly?
 
Originally posted by: Axoliien
On XP you use PROMPT to set a new prompt, on old systems use $p$g to set a new prompt. Used to do this in the autoexec.bat files of my teachers in high school and they would freak out.

$p$g Your hard disk is being formatted. Please wait...
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haha

I never tried that one out...
 
you people are sad, and no you're not sad because you know these things.

You're sad because you'd rather come into a thread and make fun of others that you don't even know and assuming that you're all knowledgable about 'DOS' and 'Shell' programs without expanding upon what it is you do know or explain yourself. You'd just rather take this oppertunity to make yourself look soooooo good rather then as a oppertunity to allow others to learn off of what you know. Some of you simply think oh this is my time to shine and just blast my mouth to gain credability on a popular forum online.

It is sad what Anandtech has become.
 
Originally posted by: BigToque
Originally posted by: Looney
Originally posted by: BigToque
If you've ever wanted to capture the output into a file, all you need to do is append this to your command line (without the quotes):

" > x:\file.txt"
Click to expand...

Did you know the Turbo button does not actually make your computer go fast? In fact, it's the OPPOSITE. It slows down your computer so games will play properly. Back during those days, if a game was created for the 386s era, and you had a 486-66DX, the game would FLY by your screen because the mhz would be too high... so what the 'turbo' button did was SLOW down your computer so it could play the games properly.
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But, do you know WHY the old games ran so quickly?
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Yes, because back when those games were created, there was really only IBM and their clones, which all ran the same speed. So the programmers only coded the games to run at that speed.
 
Originally posted by: Meractik
you people are sad, and no you're not sad because you know these things.

You're sad because you'd rather come into a thread and make fun of others that you don't even know and assuming that you're all knowledgable about 'DOS' and 'Shell' programs without expanding upon what it is you do know or explain yourself. You'd just rather take this oppertunity to make yourself look soooooo good rather then as a oppertunity to allow others to learn off of what you know. Some of you simply think oh this is my time to shine and just blast my mouth to gain credability on a popular forum online.

It is sad what Anandtech has become.
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And what's even more sad is that you feel the need to come and reprimand people you don't know.
 
Originally posted by: BigToque
Originally posted by: Axoliien
On XP you use PROMPT to set a new prompt, on old systems use $p$g to set a new prompt. Used to do this in the autoexec.bat files of my teachers in high school and they would freak out.

$p$g Your hard disk is being formatted. Please wait...
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haha

I never tried that one out...
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I used to use Net Send with the message "To Format your C:\ drive click OK" (There's only one button on a Net Send dialog 🙂)

 
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